Theodor Dependorf

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Theodor Dependorf (born August 15, 1870 in Hamburg ; † May 8, 1915 near Ypres ) was a German dentist and university professor.

Life

The son of a merchant, Dependorf, attended the Johanneum School of Scholars in Hamburg. After graduating from high school, he studied dentistry at the University of Jena from 1889 . In 1890 he became a member of the Corps Thuringia Jena . As an inactive , he moved to the University of Leipzig . From 1895 he worked at Ernst Haeckel at the Zoological Institute of the University of Jena, which him 1896 in Biology for Dr. phil. PhD . In 1897 he established himself as a general practitioner in his hometown and married Ursula Susanne Kramer , daughter of a spa doctor from Bad Elster . Appointed director of the Dental Institute by the University of Jena in 1902 , Dependorf completed his habilitation in dentistry in 1903. Since then he has been a private lecturer , in 1907 he moved to the University of Leipzig as director of the Dental Institute, which in 1908 appointed him associate professor for dentistry. In the same year he arranged for the new building of the Dental Institute (completed in 1910) on Nürnberger Straße. During the First World War , he volunteered as a war volunteer in 1915 . A little later he died at the age of 45 in the Second Battle of Flanders .

literature

  • Hannelore Sabine Genz-Klein: Life and work of the teacher and researcher in dentistry Prof. Dr. phil. John Theodor Dependorf . Dissertation, Karl Marx University 1967.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Giese, Benno von Hagen: History of the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Jena 1958, p. 635.
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 62/696
  3. Dissertation: On the history of the development of the tooth system of the mammalian genus Galeopithecus Pall
  4. Habilitation thesis: Communications on the anatomy and clinic of the gums and the buccal mucosa after microscopic examinations of different human ages .